We (Akira Takahashi, Elizabeth Crites, markulf kohlweiss, and myself) are organising a workshop on the Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs at ICMS from September 2nd to 5th, and registration is open now! Check out: icms.org.uk/ZeroKnowledgeP…

Great work lead by David Balbás within the #picocrypt project headed by Dario Fiore at IMDEA Software 🙌🙌 La Comunidad de Madrid crea técnicas de verificación para aumentar la seguridad en el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial shar.es/agtIdS

The Belgian presidency pushes new cosmetic changes to the EU Regulation on CSAM that do not solve any of the fundamental flaws of the proposal x.com/bpreneel1/stat…

📖Don't miss the book from Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev! 📖 github.com/hash-based-sna…

Early registration closing tonight! Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity! africacrypt2024.com/attend/registr… Poster submission deadline is today as well! africacrypt2024.com/technical-prog… See you in Douala!

The full Belgian presidency chatcontrol proposal has been leaked by netzpolitik today. This proposal fails to protect children, leads to mass surveillance and presents a large risk of abuse. The criticism in our open letters is unfortunately still valid. cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2024…

ZK Workshop in Edinburgh Sept. 2-6. Apply to attend/give a short talk by June 14: icms.org.uk/ZeroKnowledgeP… We have funding for students/postdocs! Speakers (TBC): Jonathan Katz, Dario Fiore, Tom Gur, Carsten Baum, Peter Scholl, Lisa Kohl, Arantxa Zapico 🧉, Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, Anca Nitulescu

A reminder that the registration deadline is June 14th! We offer excellent talks on cool topics, beautiful city, free accommodation, travel stipends, and a great community. Join us for the zero-knowledge workshop in Edinburgh in September! Akira Takahashi Elizabeth Crites markulf kohlweiss

Tomorrow at 2pm CEST (5am PST/8am ET) : 3rd talk of our 2nd edition WinC Seminar! Learning with Errors: How to find long vectors towards a successful career by Allison Bishop More info/how to join: womenincryptography.com/seminar/ (sofía celi Ana Costache Katharina Boudgoust Laurane )

Another crucial week in the crypto wars: chatcontrol proposal may be approved in the EU council. Public meeting of Council today at 17h40. Link: video.consilium.europa.eu/event/en/27508… 🧵

The EU proposals fundamentally undermine end to end encryption. I can’t put it better than Meredith Whittaker signal.org/blog/pdfs/uplo…

This Wednesday (19/06) 10AM CEST, last talk of our WinC Seminar (2nd edition) don’t miss it😺 «Securing embedded systems and what AI has to do with it» by Lejla Batina. Lejla Batina More info/how to join: womenincryptography.com/seminar/ (sofía celi Ana Costache Katharina Boudgoust Laurane)

I am urging the entire TCS community to attend the TCS for All inspiration talk to be given by Luca Trevisan to honor his contributions and to be there for him and his family at this very difficult time. I will be sharing the registration link shortly. Registration will be free.

Això és demà i si s'aprova serà un desastre.

We are heartbroken at the passing of our dear colleague Luca Trevisan, who was a senior scientist at the Simons Institute from 2014 to 2019. We will be sharing some of the remembrances members of our research community have posted. Our own obituary of Luca will follow soon.

Bill is writing an open problems column to honor Luca Trevisan and wants your contributions. blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2024/06/solici…

Ale and Eylon did a podcast about the book (snargsbook.org)! Enjoy!

Our work on lattice-based polynomial commitments was published in the Journal of Cryptology, as the first article in the Topical Collection on Modern Zero-Knowledge Protocols! Joint work with Hossein Moghaddas and Ngoc Khanh Nguyen! 📄: ia.cr/2023/846 📚: doi.org/10.1007/s00145…

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The next edition of Theory and Practice of Multi-Practice Computation (TPMPC) will take place in Bangalore March 3rd-6th, and the deadline for submitting talks is October 15th. This is much earlier than in previous years, please help spread the word! multipartycomputation.com/tpmpc-2025